Why you should join the military? pt 3

How to protect yourself in the military.

You will often find yourselves in close quarters with people you have to work with. Your counterpart will be any combination of things in relation to you, but what is the same, is the drain of the job on both of you, the environment. The people you work with may get to the point where one emotionally controls the other.

Sometimes you see people who do all the work, regardless of who else works with them. Sometimes people bring in a new "order of doing things" and this can be the totally wrong approach.

A sign to watch for is: When you work with someone, if you feel horrible, and when you leave that person's presence, you feel better, that is a BAD relationship.

I would recommend getting contact information of all people you work and serve with, even Myspace accounts.

The biggest sign that you are in a bad place in the military: You are not getting promoted. Either you are working towards promotion, were just promoted and have to wait for a window of opportunity, or you have some negative action keeping you from promotion. If you are not in the above, something is wrong, and you need to speak to someone else about this, like a higher ranking NCO or commander, about why.

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[PDP601]

I just would like to say thank you so much skyanimal for sharing this information to civilians like myself that's considering on joining the military and basicly don't know what I am getting myself into! I really think that is very gracious andthoughtful of you to share this with us because you didn't have to do this. Thank you so much!!!!

[0587dave]

but no matter what chances are you are going to be working from a 12-16hour day excluding chow formations, pt formations, and any other training you might have to do for the day. the missions in a hot zone you will never know how long you work because they vary from mission to mission

[0587dave]

@skyanimal that depends on what your MOS is, your rank is, and if your in training prep for a ship off somewhere outside the US. right now after ait chances are you will go to germany for about 2 months for additional training and then go straight to afghanistan

[0587dave]

a lot of free time? ya you might have had a lot of free time being in hawaii for 3 years but on average you dont have a lot of free time. your point of view is from someone on training status for 2 years and then hawaii active duty training status for the next 3 years.

[tizit88]

are you still in the military?

[miamiice]

Good videos Sky I must say. How long did you serve for and in what branch and station did you serve? I know that back then is not like now even though there's still people over seas in Iraq and what have you. I'll like to enroll after working for the census that's if they call me to work in the next two months. Keep those videos coming and thanks for posting them!!!

[HoLLowzVideos]

i agree one hundred percent

[astrogodzilla]

If you join make sure your stuff is always squared away, and never be late for formations.

[astrogodzilla]

Just like any job especially the military you should keep a low profile, just do your job and then go home or to your barracks. Be careful who you hang out with and associate with. When you are a newbie learn the politics.

[jacklane61]

Man, I'm trying to listen..But you're really not saying anything. I'm sure there's some content in there somewhere. Think about it a little and articulate.